The great jazz trumpeter and band-leader Wynton Marsalis stages another raid on classical territory with a new trumpet concerto, here receiving its UK premiere from Alison Balsom plus the London ...
Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...
Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...
Indianapolis singer and pianist Kelleen Strutz will perform Aug. 16 at the Jazz at Helen’s series. Kelleen Strutz’s trips to Zaharakos with 8-year-old son Ethan have become whimsical salutes to the ...
Chicago opera is, inexplicably, hibernating this winter — the city hosts no staged productions until mid-March, with Lyric Opera’s “La bohème.” Thankfully, other groups aren’t following suit. In fact, ...
Inside the tight limits of musical formality, fresh ideas seem to die like birds blundering against a window. Pleasant enough music can still be written within the old boundaries, but its most ...
LA PHIL presents OSCAR, WITH LOVE (I have never seen such a lineup of so many of the best jazz pianists of our generation, except on the 2016 tribute album to the great Oscar Peterson, arranged by his ...
LOS ANGELES — Billy Childs was all smiles in February as he walked to the backstage media center at Crypto.com Arena, cradling his sixth and most recent Grammy Award. “I always had in mind that I didn ...